The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 767
PT. 11 AT-TAUBAH CH. 9 وَإِذَا مَا أُنْزِلَتْ سُوْرَةٌ نَظَرَ بَعْضُهُمْ إلى And whenever a Surah is. 17 بَعْضٍ هَلْ يَريكُم مِّنْ أَحَدِثُمَّ another, saying, Does anyone sent down, "they look at one see you?' Then they turn away. hearts because they are a people انْصَرَفُوا صَرَفَ اللهُ قُلُوبَهُمْ بِأَنَّهُمْ Allah has turned away their قَوْمُ لا يَفْقَهُونَ who would not understand. 1274 لَقَدْ جَاءَ كُمْ رَسُولٌ مِّنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ Surely, a Messenger has. 128 عَزِيزٌ عَلَيْهِ مَا عَنِتُّمْ حَرِيصٌ yourselves, grievous to him is عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمُ come unto you from among that you should fall into trouble; he is ardently desirous of your welfare; and to the believers he is compassionate and merciful. 1275 1274. Commentary: "24:64. 61:6. 9:61. The hypocrites used to sit among Muslims when worldly matters were being discussed; but when the recital of the Quran began, they would quietly slink away. The verse means to say that as these men refuse to listen to the Word of God and turn away from it, so, as a punishment for this act of theirs, God has turned away their hearts from truth. This helps to explain expressions like "leading astray" etc. , used about God in the Quran. His "leading astray" only means that when evil-minded men go astray and persist in their evil God leaves them alone and allows them to wander away from the truth, stamping them as lost. course, 1275. Commentary: and disbelievers, the opening part of it applying to the latter and the closing part to the former. To disbelievers the verse says: It grieves the Prophet to see you fall into trouble, i. e. although you subjected the Prophet to all manner of persecutions and privations, yet his heart is so full of the milk of human kindness that no amount of persecution on your part can make him bitter against you or make him wish you ill. He is so kind and bear to see you turn away from the sympathetic to you that he cannot path of righteousness and thus put yourselves in trouble. To believers the verse says: The Prophet is compassionate and merciful, i. e. he cheerfully shares with you your sorrows and afflictions. Moreover, This verse applies to both believers like an affectionate father he treats 1207